Huffington: Obama ad 'despicable'

Huffington Post editor-in-chief Arianna Huffington said Monday that making a campaign ad about the killing of Osama bin Laden, as President Barack Obama has done, “is one of the most despicable things you can do.”

“I think it’s one thing to celebrate the fact that they did such a great job. It’s one thing to have an NBC special from the Situation Room,” the media mogul said on “CBS This Morning.” “All that, to me, is perfectly legitimate. But to turn it into a campaign ad is one of the most despicable things you can do.”

She added: “There is no way to know whether Romney would’ve been as decisive. And to actually speculate that he wouldn’t be is, to me, not the way to run campaigns on either side.”

Huffington likened the ad to Hillary Clinton’s “3 a.m. phone call” spot against Obama during the 2008 campaign: “It’s the same thing that Hillary Clinton did with the ‘3 a.m. call,’ you know — ‘You are not ready to be commander-in-chief.’”